Dr. Ronan Glynn:

That is a useful way to categorise this. I have spoken publicly about the fact that, no matter what happens, we are facing a window of six to nine months before any major change in how we respond to this. If we are still living with this in six to nine months and nothing major has changed, and we do not have a treatment, vaccine or significant advances in testing and diagnostics, we will have to re-examine the position, and there will be a chapter 3. This could involve an entirely different approach from the one we are taking at the moment. To give people hope, there is an unprecedented amount of global research ongoing on vaccines and diagnostics. While we cannot be overly optimistic and give people any guarantees, we have to be confident that, in six to nine months, if we can get through this winter, the landscape will be very different and, I hope, much more positive than the one we are facing.